Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!ra!phillips From: phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: File from MacHell Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 21:06:24 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Lines: 20 I ftp'd to a Macintosh running some version of NCSA Telnet, and, after going to the directory of interest, said "dir". I got a list of files, including one with a trailing asterisk. I got the file, and there it was in my directory on the Sun running SunOs Unix Something. However, it was zero length. I tried to delete it with rm, using every combination of quoting and escaping and globbing that I knew, and every time I got the reply: HellFile* not found. Saying "ls -q" showed the entry "HellFile?". I finally ftp'd to myself on the Sun and issued a delete command from there, and it worked! Going to the Mac Finder I saw that the name was really HellFile[non-ascii-character]. Now here is the question: Can a lowly user unlink a file that can not be mentioned by name? I couldn't get anywhere with clri. And how does one deal, with ftp, with files on Macs whose names have non-ascii characters in them? -- Lee Phillips phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil phillips@cmf.nrl.navy.mil phillips@lcp.nrl.navy.mil